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Obadiah Dunham – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Despite the attempts by lawmakers to legislate a closing of the achievement gap, persistent gaps in performance for students based on ethnicity, race, economic level, disability, and first language persist throughout public schools in the United States. Occasionally, a principal will receive attention for raising the performance of minoritized…
Descriptors: Principals, Public Schools, Achievement Gap, Disadvantaged
Bledsoe, Michele T. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Managing student misbehavior at school is a reality today's school staff must be prepared for. Researchers and practitioners have been implementing a variety of strategies to support students with challenging behavior; however, the opportunity gap for specific students continues to exist. The number of students who are excluded, suspended, or…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Novices, Administrators, Educational Legislation
Kwakye, Isaac; Kibort-Crocker, Emma – Washington Student Achievement Council, 2021
Washington is working to increase educational attainment so that 70 percent of all adults ages 25 to 44 have a postsecondary credential. However, ongoing inequities in education have impeded access to educational opportunities, and some racial groups are further from the statewide goal. Part of the issue is the transition from K-12 to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Racial Differences, Achievement Gap, Elementary Secondary Education
Kwakye, Isaac; Kibort-Crocker, Emma – Washington Student Achievement Council, 2020
Despite progress in the number of Washingtonians receiving postsecondary credentials, there are persistent gaps in attainment rates for underrepresented minority groups. Notably, the Hispanic population is the state's second-largest racial/ethnic group, but educational outcomes lag behind their white counterparts. Narrowing these equity gaps…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Equal Education, Postsecondary Education, Educational Attainment
Nancy Lynn Palmanteer-Holder – Region 16 Comprehensive Center, 2024
Imagine a public K-12 school system where Native students and communities can thrive. The Washington Tribal Education Sovereignty then Justice Toolkit is designed to support Tribal leaders engaging in consultation and government-to-government communication with local and state education agencies. The toolkit includes: Part 1: Applying educational…
Descriptors: Guides, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, American Indian Students
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Freeman, Scott; Pape-Lindstrom, Pamela; Casper, Anne; Eddy, Sarah – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2020
High-structure course designs have reduced achievement gaps for low-income and underrepresented minority students at research universities. But do community college students have time to do the preclass preparation required for intensive active learning, given their work and family commitments? We asked introductory majors biology students at two…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Biology, Majors (Students)
Region 9 Comprehensive Center, 2022
Teacher shortages disproportionally impact high need schools that can be hard to staff. However, effective teachers have an influential role in improving low-performing schools. Focusing on recruiting and retaining teachers to low-income and low-performing schools is crucial not only to closing achievement gaps, but also to ensuring that students…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Teacher Shortage
Center for MH in Schools and Student/Learning Supports at UCLA, 2019
The federal "Every Student Succeeds Act" (ESSA) has stimulated states to revisit school improvement. Previously, the Center analyzed ESSA and the related consolidated state plans using the lens of how the federal legislation and state plans address barriers to learning and teaching and re-engage disconnected students. Such analyses…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement
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Bjorklund-Young, Alanna; Plasman, Jay Stratte – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2020
Over the past 30 years, numerous policies have focused on closing the achievement gap in the United States. Despite this emphasis on mastery and proficiency, students continue to perform below expectations. We use standardized math test performance to explore whether schools have been able to eliminate the achievement gap across middle-level…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Mathematics Achievement, Middle School Students, Early Adolescents
Wixom, Micah Ann – Education Commission of the States, 2015
The achievement gap separating economically disadvantaged students from their more advantaged peers disproportionately affects students of color and has been the focus of discussion, research and controversy for more than 40 years. While the gap between black and white students narrowed considerably from the 1950s to the 1980s, that gap has…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Statewide Planning
Miller, Michaela; Boatwright, Jason; Mahoney, Katherine – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2019
Students earning college credit while meeting the requirements of Washington's high school diploma are basic education students. Yet every year in Washington, students and their families pay out-of-pocket for the fees, books, and supplies that are required for participation in dual credit programs. This creates inequity by only allowing students…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, College Credits, High School Students, Student Costs
Goldhaber, Dan; Quince, Vanessa; Theobald, Roddy – American Educational Research Journal, 2018
There is mounting evidence of substantial "teacher quality gaps" (TQGs) between advantaged and disadvantaged students but practically no empirical evidence about their history. We use longitudinal data on public school students, teachers, and schools from two states--North Carolina and Washington--to provide a descriptive history of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational History, Educational Change
García, Emma; Weiss, Elaine – Economic Policy Institute, 2017
Persistently large achievement gaps between high-social-class and low-social-class children in America, and the disparities in opportunity that drive these achievement gaps, threaten the very notion of the American Dream. The lack of true equality of opportunity calls for much more comprehensive interventions to tackle those gaps. This report…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Equal Education, Educational Strategies, Educational Policy
Ugo, Iwunze; Hill, Laura – Public Policy Institute of California, 2017
The second year of California's statewide administration of the Smarter Balanced assessment allows parents, educators, and policymakers a second look at achievement and a first look at growth for K-12 students as measured by this standardized test. This report describes how California's students performed on the second year of the assessment…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Assessment
Lawson, Molly A. – Online Submission, 2017
This quantitative study used regression analysis to investigate the correlation of limited language proficiency and the performance of English Language Learner (ELL) students on two commonly used math assessments, namely the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP). Scores were analyzed for eighth…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Regression (Statistics), Correlation, Language Proficiency
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